Linebacker, Lineback?
Half Backer, Half Back? Middle?
Silly Mid, on and off!
Odd thoughts on position names in sport.
Linebackers and Half Backs.
Not Line Backs and Half Backers.
Cricket wins hands down with the Silly Mid, both On and Off.
Not going near Tight Ender.
Yogi Berra wrong?
not over, but it’s over
Aussies keep Ashes
Mr. Berra is credited with saying something like, “It ain’t over, until it’s over.”
Many times in sports and in life, this rings true.
No surprise that, in the Ashes, it doesn’t apply.
The Ashes is a test cricket series between Australia and England that is played every other year and alternates sites between England and Australia.
A test cricket series is made up of 5 test cricket matches.
Each match can last up to 5 days with breaks each day for lunch and tea.
A cricket match can end as a:
WIN: One team has more runs at the end of the match
Tie: Both teams have the same amount of runs and wickets at the end of a match.
Draw: If a match ends with one team not being able to complete their innings at bat before the end of play.
No Result: Match has started but due to weather or light or something else cannot be completed.
Abandoned: Match never stated.
One quirk of Cricket is that the Ashes is a best of five series, but regardless of results, all five matches are played.
If this was a World Series, all seven games would be played even if one team won the first four.
Another quirk of the Ashes is that in case of a series draw, the team holding the Ashes, gets to keep the trophy.
This year, Australia won Test 1 and Test 4.
England won Test 3 (in dramatic fashion)
Test 2 was a draw.
The best England can do is a Draw for the 2019 Series.
So it’s over and Australia keeps the Ashes.
But Test 5 still has to be played.
So it’s not over.
That’s Cricket!
outside the off stump
bowled, L B W
65 for 3
Hard to get my creative conscious to focus away from cricket when I am listening to the 2nd Test of the 2019 Ashes from Lords.
I used the cricket term, L B W which stands for Leg Before Wicket.
Leg before wicket (lbw) is one of the ways in which a batter can be dismissed in the sport of cricket. Following an appeal by the fielding side, the umpire may rule a batter out lbw if the ball would have struck the wicket, but was instead intercepted by any part of the batter’s body (except the hand holding the bat). The umpire’s decision will depend on a number of criteria, including where the ball pitched, whether the ball hit in line with the wickets, and whether the batter was attempting to hit the ball. (Wikipedia)
I have to point out that, from a Haiku point of view, using the initial, W, instead of the word, WICKET, uses more syllables.
I am reminded of the time at WZZM13 that I was asked to write out a tag line about the website for use on air.
I was told to keep it simple.
So I wrote out, ‘Go to Double You Double You Double You dot Double You Zee Zee Emm Thirteen dot com for more information.’
If I remember right, the producer put it in the script like that which made the anchor laugh out loud on air.
Then he read the tag, slowly.
slips and a gully
mid on, mid off, driven left
and there is no run
Imagine if every two years, Michigan and Ohio State told that sporting world that they were taking time for a private contest.
Then for five weeks, they played a match that was the best of five games.
The games wouldn’t be sanctioned by the Big 10 or the NCAA.
This was a just between them and they were going to play.
That is the Ashes.
A private sporting contest between England and Australia every two years, alternating between countries.
And its test match cricket.
Five days are reserved for play.
Two sides of 10 batters and all 10 batters bat until they are out for one inning and there two innings.
Breaks for lunch, tea and drinks.
And don’t tell me that cricket doesn’t keep up with the times.
This year, for the 1st time ever, players have names and numbers on their … jumpers.
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